Fragments of Noir

Thursday, 4 June 2026

Pierre Montazel

La Dama Del Alba

Ossessione

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Razzia Sur La Chnouf

Gas-Oil (Hi-Jack Highway)

Can't Sleep

I can't drink, i can't eat, i can't think, i can't sleep

So lets have a song, lets have it loud

The louder the better to drown out the crowd

O' here is my order

Waiter just make mine blues

Waiter Make Mine Blues

(Biondi/O'Day)

Anita O'Day

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Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Left of the Day

"I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her".

Jeff Bailey
Out of the Past
1947

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Patrick Connelly linocut

As it comes with a voice and a face
And you make a talk of it
Talking to yourself a talk worth keeping
And you put it away for a keen keeping
And you find it to be a hoarding
And you give it away and yet it stays hoarded

from
Love is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely
Carl Sandburg
1963

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Corinne Calvet

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Coming Off Shift #11

Body Heat

Ossesione

The Vanishing (1993)

Terminal (2018)

Brighton Rock

Duel

Larceny

Hell or High Water

Des Gens Sans Importance

Postman Always Rings Twice

Vicki

Last Stop Yuma

Last Picture Show

End of Violence

Put a Spell on You

I Put a Spell on You
(Hawkins)
Nina Simone

Monday, 1 June 2026

Jack Palance

Sudden Fear

Requiem for a Heavyweight (Playhouse 90)

The Big Knife

Panic in the Streets

House of Numbers

Man in the Attic

Night Train to Milan

Down the Flue

The left one's the hospital, the right one's death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These hands are bad juju and the bad boogaloo, they're the teeth of the demon as he slides down the flue.

James Ellroy

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Patrick Cavan Brown
Ellroy